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by azernik 6y ago
Even the French speakers embody all the German stereotypes more than the Germans.
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by azernik 6y ago
Israelis call the Swiss "more German than the Germans".
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by azernik 6y ago
Part of it is a reaction - Japanese pop culture starting in the 60s and 70s included a strong element of youth rebellion against parentally-mandated elegance and minimalism. Similar to how European and European-derived cultures adopted a ve
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by azernik 6y ago
Not to mention CFD modeling - the F1 engines' combustion stability took enormous amount of iterative development and exploding test articles to get right, whereas new engine designs are much closer to working when the first prototypes
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by azernik 6y ago
Please look at the Irish, or Canadian, or Montenegrin, or Philippines examples. There are all kinds of intermediate arrangements between independence and annexation, and places can slide fairly smoothly between them.
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by azernik 6y ago
And that's how you know it's their core business, and everything else is just gravy.
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by azernik 6y ago
We have quite a lot of evidence for: * recent zoonotic origin (closely related to bat coronavirus samples, with likely pangolin recombination - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0092_article ) * i
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by azernik 6y ago
RTFA, I guess?
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by azernik 6y ago
It's not incidental - he referenced this blog post in a press conference today, in which he responded to this scandal. (Without apologizing, of course.) The two are closely linked politically, as he is trying to defend himself from cri
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by azernik 6y ago
He was specifically talking about biolab incidents, which are not how this pandemic started. Using the word "coronavirus" is the only plausible connection to the current crisis, and he fabricated it after the fact for politica
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by azernik 6y ago
That's a pretty obvious typo for "18th century AD".
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by azernik 6y ago
Ouch. This is what you get when you order up a third-party review and then misrepresent it in advertising.
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With no child care or summer camps, women are being edged out of the workforce(thelily.com)
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by azernik 6y ago
In most cases, less than €500M.
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by azernik 6y ago
Social and legal norms give parents astonishingly broad powers over their children's lives; this is indeed an important decision, but not any more important than the other things parents can decide uni-/bi-laterally.
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by azernik 6y ago
Pollution is not permanent - it has a half-life in the air/water/ground. (Assuming exponential decay, which is a decent heuristic.) "Permanent" forms of pollution are just those which have unreasonably long half-lives, l
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by azernik 6y ago
Wine has gotten very good at recent games... or more specifically, Proton has. (Proton is a Steam-maintained fork of Wine, and is built in to the Steam client.) Official Proton "support" is limited, because it requires certifica
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by azernik 6y ago
See this very case! Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at police officers breaking into his girlfriend's house; he was arrested and charged with attempted murder, and is currently under house arrest. The police union, of co
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by azernik 6y ago
Most likely is for component testing - would explain the secrecy, the low flight rate, and the long (2 years or so) mission duration. EDIT: And, in fact, the one publicly-released payload I'm finding was a test of a new heat pipe.
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by azernik 6y ago
They're doing some questionable sigint things I'm sure, but you don't need reentry and reusability for that. The most likely use-case is for testing components to use in conventional satellites.
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by azernik 6y ago
Probably is a coincidence - these launches are planned and contracted far in advance, and Trump didn't seem to care last time one was launched during his administration.
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by azernik 6y ago
Not sure, but I would imagine it's less than you'd think. The spaceplane was originally a NASA project that DoD picked up after most development was done, and it launches from commercial rockets (eg they've used SpaceX rocket
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by azernik 6y ago
Given the reference to the Scunthorpe Problem in the font's very name, it's definitely not seriously pushing this kind of censorship.
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by azernik 6y ago
Indeed, the long-term effects I've seen researchers express more concern over are simpler. The disease causes quite a lot of damage to the lungs and circulatory system, and messes with brain oxygen levels. Not all of that damage is eas
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by azernik 6y ago
There's some evidence that COVID-19 infections are going to cause long-lasting damage: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-we-know-about-th...
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by azernik 6y ago
"21st-century capitalism" is a system - it is characterized by low worker negotiating leverage, a fragile social safety net, and low or nonexistent effective taxes on businesses. He may have been better served by qualifying it as
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by azernik 6y ago
Because of active union-busting efforts, which have made it hard for these workers to organize collective action. Walmart: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/how-wal... Whole Foods (pos
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by azernik 6y ago
Low or high demand are always relative to supply. So think "high supply" rather than "low demand".
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by azernik 7y ago
I mean, same - my main point was that it's not sustainable. Sooner or later SoftBank and the Saudis are going to run out of patience, so just enjoy it while you can.
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by azernik 7y ago
That may be the plan, but SoftBank and the Saudis are not exactly smart money.

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